Despite the promising off-season moves, the team suffered critical bullpen injuries while the newly signed Davis hurlers both experienced lackluster performances throughout the 1990 campaign.

Despite poor performances from the usually steady Chris Capuano and more nagging injuries to Ben Sheets, the Brewers found themselves in a heated pennant race with Chicago's North Siders.

Despite being hampered by injuries prior to and during 2005 – 06, the Flyers lived up to those expectations in the first half of the season, reaching the top of the league standings in January while simultaneously holding a ten-point lead in the Atlantic Division.

Despite injuries to both Johnson and Mourning, the two led the team in points-per-game.

Despite these changes, the team in regressed even further, hampered by injuries to key players.

Despite the difficulties with the suspensions and injuries, the Pacers earned a sixth seed in the playoffs with a record of 44 – 38.

Despite the loss of Miller, the Artest saga, and many key injuries the Pacers made the playoffs in 2006 for the 14th time in 15 years.

Despite the injuries, the Jazz played well enough to defeat Denver 4 – 2 in the series.

Despite injuries suffered in the series with Calgary, they defeated the Los Angeles Kings in six games.

Despite his injuries, he helped other wounded men for sixteen hours, until another doctor told him to stop.

Despite serious injuries, including damage to several major organs, Brown survived the attack and ultimately testified at Muhammad's trial.

Despite their rapid nocturnal flight through the southern swamp, they suffered no greater injuries than the ruining of coats and trousers.

Despite the amount of care taken in regularly trimming the toenails, they would often in-grow, becoming infected and causing injuries to the toes.

Despite these measures, an intruder broke into the residence in the early hours of 30 December 1999, attacking Harrison and his wife Olivia, leaving him suffering a punctured lung, seven stab wounds, and head injuries.

Despite his nigh-invulnerability, he is still susceptible to injuries.

Despite Garciaparra's late season slump and injuries, Garciaparra did prevail in the clutch for the Dodgers during their playoff race with two walk off home runs.

Despite safety features and protective clothing, injuries can still arise from chainsaw use, from the large forces involved in the work, from the fast-moving, sharp chain, or from the vibration and noise of the machinery.

Despite the wreckage, injuries were relatively light in the area, although one person in a neighboring county was killed.

Despite being abundant in ribs and vertebrae, injuries seem to be " absent ... or very rare " on the bodies ' primary weight supporting bones like the sacrum, femur, and tibia.

Despite lingering effects from previous injuries, Sammartino agreed to come out of retirement to help his son launch his career.

Despite the persistence of injuries, Rüştü was able to play a major role in helping the club win the Süper Lig in 2008 – 09 and has provided some memorable performances for Beşiktaş, most notably against Manchester United in a Champions League group game at Old Trafford on 25 November 2009 where he produced a number of world-class saves to secure a famous 1 – 0 win.

Despite numerous injuries to key players he helped Wednesday to finish 10 points clear of relegation in their first season back in The Championship.

Despite having a job with the constabulary, Harbhajan sustained minor injuries in March 2002 in an altercation with police outside the team hotel in Guwahati.

Despite being hit by a record number of pitches, Biggio never charged the mound, and had no serious injuries as a result of being hit by a pitch.

Despite being the highest-rated woman for twenty years, Polgár has never competed for the women's world championship and in a 2011 interview was asked about this possibility.

Despite not having competed for several years he earned a silver medal.

Despite the injury, he competed in RallyCross three days later using hand controls mounted to the steering wheel.

Despite bouncing around, Labonte competed in every race for the 2010 season.

Despite the shorter distance the Rhyl-Bangor derby is seen as the bigger of the two as it's been competed for many more years.

Despite being located midway between Celtic and Rangers, Queen's Park's long resistance to professionalism has resulted in not having competed in the same division as them for long periods of time, and thus turning to rivals in lower divisions, such as Partick Thistle, Clyde and Albion Rovers.

Despite being expensive, these coaches were very successful in the Spanish market and competed well with Pegaso's own Monotrals and all other conventional chassis-body models.

Despite an economic recession that cut into new car sales industrywide, and especially affected the medium-priced car market that Olds competed in, Oldsmobile saw only a slight decline in sales for 1958 and even rose in industry standings to fourth-place behind the " Low-Priced Three " of Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth, while surpassing a now-floundering sister division Buick on the sales charts for the first time in many years.

Despite these defeats, McLean claims to have competed in almost four thousand fights over three decades, and only lost a small number of these.

Despite the state of his health, Richmond competed in eight races in 1987, winning two events and one pole position before his final race in August of that year.

Despite its weak signal and poor audio quality, the station became very successful and competed with then 92. 5 WMHE.

Despite the injury, Saturn continued to compete and defeated the Dudley Boyz at Wrestlepalooza ' 97 and Kronus continued defending the title in handicap matches against the F. B. I before Saturn competed in a match that saw the Eliminators drop the tag-team titles back to the Dudley Boyz at a house show in Waltham, Massachusetts on June 20, 1997.

Despite her attempts to get out of this pageant Jones not only competed but won.

Despite never having changed nationality, Šekarić has competed under four flags at her six Olympics.

Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands ".

Despite calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988.

Despite calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988.

Despite Ekéus ' belief that Iraq was nearly certifiable as being free of such weapons, U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced that United Nations sanctions would not be lifted until such time as Hussein was no longer in power.

Despite the controversy, the United Nations proceeded to created a mandate in Kosovo, in which the province technically remained a part of Serbia ( or the FRY as it was then ), but was completely autonomous.

Despite several calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988.

Despite many heated debates in the General Assembly, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was founded as a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly by Resolution 319 ( IV ) of the United Nations General Assembly of December 1949.

Despite initial French attempts at settling the region having ended in failure, French fishing fleets began to sail to the Atlantic coast and into the St. Lawrence River, trading and making alliances with First Nations.

The Mexican newspaper, The News, reported that “ a tribunal of three circuit court judges ruled that there was not enough proof to link Echeverria to the violent suppression of hundreds of protesting students on Oct. 2, 1968 .” Despite the ruling, prosecutor Carrillo Prieto said he would continue his investigation and seek charges against Echeverria before the United Nations International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.

Despite the Doctor's best efforts to broker a peaceful solution, the Silurians are still determined to exterminate Humanity, only to have their base destroyed by the fictional United Nations Intelligence Taskforce on the orders of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart ( Nicholas Courtney ) to preempt this open threat.

Despite this, according to Major General Indar Jit Rikhye, military adviser to the United Nations Secretary General, the accusation of a blockade was " questionable ," pointing out that an Israeli-flagged ship had not passed through the straits in two years, and that " The U. A. R.

Despite objections in world forums such as the United Nations, Portugal had long maintained that its African colonies were an integral part of Portugal, and felt obliged to militarily defend them against Communist-inspired armed groups, particularly after India's annexation of Portuguese exclaves Goa, Daman and Diu ( Portuguese India ), in 1961 ( see Indian Invasion of Goa ).

Despite a 1947 United Nations agreement that the obelisk would be shipped back, Italy balked, resulting in a long-standing diplomatic dispute with the Ethiopian government, which views the obelisk as a symbol of national identity.

Despite the anti-Semitic policies of the Ion Antonescu's government of Romania, the mayor of Cernăuţi, Traian Popovici, now honored by Israel's Yad Vashem memorial as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, saved ca.

Despite a successful career as a player, Markgraaff's replacement Carel du Plessis led the team to successive defeats in the British and Irish Lions 1997 tour and the 1997 Tri Nations Series.

Despite high tensions between military and First Nations forces, no shots were exchanged.

Despite the brutal 1963 coup which removed Abdul Karim Qassim from power in Iraq, Pachachi remained the representative at the United Nations.

Despite the high profile of modern multilateral systems such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, most diplomacy is still done at the bilateral level.

Despite her bigotry against the Nations, Teri tries to take food to them in a backpack, but collapses and breaks her leg.

Despite Fiji's membership at that time as a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, the Great Council recognized Queen Elizabeth II as its traditional Queen or paramount chief.

Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands.

Despite formulating the concept and signing the Covenant, the United States never joined the League of Nations.

Despite the promising 2007 World Cup, Scotland opened their 2008 Six Nations campaign losing 27 – 6 to France at home.